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Free assessment proceda Opportunity Card Assessment · Skilled worker migration

Does the Opportunity Card belong in your path?

For qualified professionals moving to Germany: check the Opportunity Card criteria. Then understand what the result means alongside the rest of your possible path.

Orientation, not a visa or authority decision.
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OFFICIAL CRITERIA CONTEXT
§20a / §20b AufenthG·Make it in Germany
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
WHICH LOGIC APPLIES
✓
Recognized qualification
Where a qualification is recognized in Germany, the Chancenkarte route follows the skilled-worker logic — the points route is not the gate.
Route A · §20a
◇
Points route
Otherwise the assessment works through the point criteria — after the basic requirements on qualification and language.
Route B · §20b
⊕ Securing your livelihood is a separate requirement in both cases.
WHICH ROUTE LOGIC APPLIES
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✕
Chancenkarte Test
What this changes
The Chancenkarte stays a route worth considering in your case. The result sits with your other assessments in proceda.
STILL IN VIEW
◎ Chancenkarte Visa In view
⌕ Job-Seeker Visa Possible
◈ Recognition route Open
⊕ Criteria context: §20a / §20b AufenthG. ↗
Back to Assessments
Retake test
WHAT THE RESULT CHANGES
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✕
Chancenkarte Test
CHANCENKARTE · RESULT
14 / 26 points
✓ Eligible · 8 over threshold
PASS
YOU · 14
026
WHERE YOUR POINTS CAME FROM
– Qualification — / 4
✓ German +4 / 5
✓ English +1 / 1
✓ Age +3 / 5
– Germany ties — / 1
✓ Shortage occupation +1 / 1
✓ Job offer +1 / 1
– Recognition — / 3
✓ Experience +2 / 2
✓ Professional practice +1 / 1
– Partner — / 1
✓ Partner qualification +1 / 1

One route doesn't define your whole path.

The Opportunity Card is one possible route. Your broader professional and migration context can make other pathways relevant too.

Opportunity Card
IN FOCUS HERE
Job-Seeker Visa
ANOTHER ROUTE
Recognition route
ANOTHER ROUTE
Further paths in proceda
NOT ASSESSED YET
A possible route isn't automatically your only route.
The official criteria answer the Opportunity Card question. proceda places that answer into the wider path you are actually planning.
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
WHICH LOGIC APPLIES
✓
Recognized qualification
Where a qualification is recognized in Germany, the Chancenkarte route follows the skilled-worker logic — the points route is not the gate.
Route A · §20a
◇
Points route
Otherwise the assessment works through the point criteria — after the basic requirements on qualification and language.
Route B · §20b
⊕ Securing your livelihood is a separate requirement in both cases.

First check the Opportunity Card itself.

The assessment works through the criteria relevant to your situation before interpreting what the result means for your wider path.

WHICH LOGIC?
Whether a recognized qualification applies, or whether the points route is the relevant one.
WHAT IS ASKED?
The criteria the assessment actually uses: qualification, language, experience, age, ties to Germany and further current fields.
WHY IT IS ASKED
Each question carries a short note on what it can change about the route, instead of a bare question counter.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE?
About ten minutes in Phase 2 of your proceda journey: free, like every proceda Assessment.
OFFICIAL CRITERIA CONTEXT
§20a / §20b AufenthG · Make it in Germany
The Opportunity Card follows official criteria. Make it in Germany also provides official guidance and a Self-Check. proceda places the result into a wider path-orientation context.
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
38%
LANGUAGE
What is your German language level?
A1 A2 B1 B2 C1
Why this matters
German is one of the point criteria — and a basic language requirement stands before the points route applies at all.
English language level
Professional experience
Age

The criteria only make sense when they are evaluated together.

Some conditions determine which route applies. Points matter where the points route applies.

01 THE ROUTE LOGIC

Which Opportunity Card logic applies?

The assessment first works out whether the recognized-qualification route or the points route is the relevant one for you. Points are not the first layer.

02 THE CRITERIA

Which criteria matter in your situation?

Language, qualification, experience, age and further criteria are asked where they affect the route, with a short note on why each one is asked.

03 POINTS WHERE THEY APPLY

Where points apply, see how they add up.

On the points route the app shows the criteria you met, the total and the statutory threshold: as a precise boundary, not a score to beat.

04 THE RESULT

See what the result changes.

The result names what it means for this route and stays with your other assessments as part of your wider orientation in proceda.

‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
WHICH LOGIC APPLIES
✓
Recognized qualification
Where a qualification is recognized in Germany, the Chancenkarte route follows the skilled-worker logic — the points route is not the gate.
Route A · §20a
◇
Points route
Otherwise the assessment works through the point criteria — after the basic requirements on qualification and language.
Route B · §20b
⊕ Securing your livelihood is a separate requirement in both cases.
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
38%
LANGUAGE
What is your German language level?
A1 A2 B1 B2 C1
Why this matters
German is one of the point criteria — and a basic language requirement stands before the points route applies at all.
English language level
Professional experience
Age
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
CHANCENKARTE · RESULT
14 / 26 points
✓ Eligible · 8 over threshold
PASS
YOU · 14
026
WHERE YOUR POINTS CAME FROM
– Qualification — / 4
✓ German +4 / 5
✓ English +1 / 1
✓ Age +3 / 5
– Germany ties — / 1
✓ Shortage occupation +1 / 1
✓ Job offer +1 / 1
– Recognition — / 3
✓ Experience +2 / 2
✓ Professional practice +1 / 1
– Partner — / 1
✓ Partner qualification +1 / 1
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
What this changes
The Chancenkarte stays a route worth considering in your case. The result sits with your other assessments in proceda.
STILL IN VIEW
◎ Chancenkarte Visa In view
⌕ Job-Seeker Visa Possible
◈ Recognition route Open
⊕ Criteria context: §20a / §20b AufenthG. ↗
Back to Assessments
Retake test
Check your Opportunity Card situation for Germany: free.
Free assessment
Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

The result changes the map.

The Opportunity Card result can help determine whether this route should stay in view, still depends on specific conditions or should give way to other possibilities.

YOUR RESULT
The assessment states the outcome for this route, on the points route with your total and the statutory threshold beside it.
WHY THIS RESULT
The breakdown shows which criteria contributed and which did not, so the result is readable rather than a bare verdict.
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
CHANCENKARTE · RESULT
14 / 26 points
✓ Eligible · 8 over threshold
PASS
YOU · 14
026
WHERE YOUR POINTS CAME FROM
– Qualification — / 4
✓ German +4 / 5
✓ English +1 / 1
✓ Age +3 / 5
– Germany ties — / 1
✓ Shortage occupation +1 / 1
✓ Job offer +1 / 1
– Recognition — / 3
✓ Experience +2 / 2
✓ Professional practice +1 / 1
– Partner — / 1
✓ Partner qualification +1 / 1
The result as the app shows it
WHAT THIS CHANGES
The result says what it means for the Opportunity Card as a route, in view, conditional, or not the one to plan around right now.
WHAT MAY STILL MATTER
It stays stored with your assessments in proceda, next to the other routes and checks that are still open to you.
THE RESULT BECOMES PART OF THE WIDER ORIENTATION
Opportunity Card
STAYS IN VIEW
Job-Seeker Visa
STILL RELEVANT
Recognition route
STILL RELEVANT
The result is stored with your assessments in proceda and becomes part of your wider orientation. proceda does not issue an official decision and does not rule a visa route out for you.

See which paths still deserve your attention.

An Opportunity Card result is one part of a wider migration picture. Other routes can remain relevant depending on your professional and personal context.

‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
What this changes
The Chancenkarte stays a route worth considering in your case. The result sits with your other assessments in proceda.
STILL IN VIEW
◎ Chancenkarte Visa In view
⌕ Job-Seeker Visa Possible
◈ Recognition route Open
⊕ Criteria context: §20a / §20b AufenthG. ↗
Back to Assessments
Retake test
What the result leaves in view, in the app
THE OTHER ASSESSMENTS
Your other checks in Phase 2, the Job-Seeker Visa test and the Diploma Check, cover routes the Opportunity Card result does not answer.
RECOGNITION CONTEXT
Where your qualification stands can change which Opportunity Card logic applies at all, and opens a route of its own.
THE WIDER PLAN
Documents, livelihood, language and the process itself remain part of the picture whichever route stays in view.
Which routes stay in view depends on your own context. proceda keeps them visible as orientation, not as a ranking and not as a promise that a route is available to you.

Every result should help narrow the next decision.

Example result states: one system, three ways the same map can read. Which one applies depends on your answers.

Opportunity Card
STAYS IN VIEW
Job-Seeker Visa
STILL RELEVANT
Recognition route
STILL RELEVANT
Further paths in proceda
NOT ASSESSED YET
KEEP THIS ROUTE IN VIEW

The Opportunity Card stays worth considering.

A positive assessment can mean the Opportunity Card remains relevant to consider in your case.

Relevant is not best. Another route may still fit your broader circumstances better.
Not this route doesn't mean no route.
OFFICIAL GUIDANCE
Make it in Germany: official Opportunity Card guidance and Self-Check. proceda is a separate app that places your result into a wider path context.
Free assessment
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
CHANCENKARTE · RESULT
14 / 26 points
✓ Eligible · 8 over threshold
PASS
YOU · 14
026
WHERE YOUR POINTS CAME FROM
– Qualification — / 4
✓ German +4 / 5
✓ English +1 / 1
✓ Age +3 / 5
– Germany ties — / 1
✓ Shortage occupation +1 / 1
✓ Job offer +1 / 1
– Recognition — / 3
✓ Experience +2 / 2
✓ Professional practice +1 / 1
– Partner — / 1
✓ Partner qualification +1 / 1

See where the Opportunity Card belongs in your path.

Run the free proceda Assessment, understand the result and place it into the wider context of your possible route to Germany: built for qualified professionals moving to Germany.

All proceda Assessments are free.

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Free assessment proceda Opportunity Card Assessment · Skilled worker migration

Does the Opportunity Card belong in your path?

For qualified professionals moving to Germany: check the Opportunity Card criteria. Then understand what the result means alongside the rest of your possible path.

Orientation, not a visa or authority decision.
Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play
OFFICIAL CRITERIA CONTEXT
§20a / §20b AufenthG·Make it in Germany
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
WHICH LOGIC APPLIES
✓
Recognized qualification
Where a qualification is recognized in Germany, the Chancenkarte route follows the skilled-worker logic — the points route is not the gate.
Route A · §20a
◇
Points route
Otherwise the assessment works through the point criteria — after the basic requirements on qualification and language.
Route B · §20b
⊕ Securing your livelihood is a separate requirement in both cases.
WHICH ROUTE LOGIC APPLIES
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
What this changes
The Chancenkarte stays a route worth considering in your case. The result sits with your other assessments in proceda.
STILL IN VIEW
◎ Chancenkarte Visa In view
⌕ Job-Seeker Visa Possible
◈ Recognition route Open
⊕ Criteria context: §20a / §20b AufenthG. ↗
Back to Assessments
Retake test
WHAT THE RESULT CHANGES
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
CHANCENKARTE · RESULT
14 / 26 points
✓ Eligible · 8 over threshold
PASS
YOU · 14
026
WHERE YOUR POINTS CAME FROM
– Qualification — / 4
✓ German +4 / 5
✓ English +1 / 1
✓ Age +3 / 5
– Germany ties — / 1
✓ Shortage occupation +1 / 1
✓ Job offer +1 / 1
– Recognition — / 3
✓ Experience +2 / 2
✓ Professional practice +1 / 1
– Partner — / 1
✓ Partner qualification +1 / 1

One route doesn't define your whole path.

The Opportunity Card is one possible route. Your broader professional and migration context can make other pathways relevant too.

Opportunity Card
IN FOCUS HERE
Job-Seeker Visa
ANOTHER ROUTE
Recognition route
ANOTHER ROUTE
Further paths in proceda
NOT ASSESSED YET
A possible route isn't automatically your only route.
The official criteria answer the Opportunity Card question. proceda places that answer into the wider path you are actually planning.
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
WHICH LOGIC APPLIES
✓
Recognized qualification
Where a qualification is recognized in Germany, the Chancenkarte route follows the skilled-worker logic — the points route is not the gate.
Route A · §20a
◇
Points route
Otherwise the assessment works through the point criteria — after the basic requirements on qualification and language.
Route B · §20b
⊕ Securing your livelihood is a separate requirement in both cases.

First check the Opportunity Card itself.

The assessment works through the criteria relevant to your situation before interpreting what the result means for your wider path.

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OFFICIAL CRITERIA CONTEXT
§20a / §20b AufenthG · Make it in Germany
The Opportunity Card follows official criteria. Make it in Germany also provides official guidance and a Self-Check. proceda places the result into a wider path-orientation context.
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
38%
LANGUAGE
What is your German language level?
A1 A2 B1 B2 C1
Why this matters
German is one of the point criteria — and a basic language requirement stands before the points route applies at all.
English language level
Professional experience
Age

The criteria only make sense when they are evaluated together.

Some conditions determine which route applies. Points matter where the points route applies.

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‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
WHICH LOGIC APPLIES
✓
Recognized qualification
Where a qualification is recognized in Germany, the Chancenkarte route follows the skilled-worker logic — the points route is not the gate.
Route A · §20a
◇
Points route
Otherwise the assessment works through the point criteria — after the basic requirements on qualification and language.
Route B · §20b
⊕ Securing your livelihood is a separate requirement in both cases.
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
38%
LANGUAGE
What is your German language level?
A1 A2 B1 B2 C1
Why this matters
German is one of the point criteria — and a basic language requirement stands before the points route applies at all.
English language level
Professional experience
Age
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
CHANCENKARTE · RESULT
14 / 26 points
✓ Eligible · 8 over threshold
PASS
YOU · 14
026
WHERE YOUR POINTS CAME FROM
– Qualification — / 4
✓ German +4 / 5
✓ English +1 / 1
✓ Age +3 / 5
– Germany ties — / 1
✓ Shortage occupation +1 / 1
✓ Job offer +1 / 1
– Recognition — / 3
✓ Experience +2 / 2
✓ Professional practice +1 / 1
– Partner — / 1
✓ Partner qualification +1 / 1
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
What this changes
The Chancenkarte stays a route worth considering in your case. The result sits with your other assessments in proceda.
STILL IN VIEW
◎ Chancenkarte Visa In view
⌕ Job-Seeker Visa Possible
◈ Recognition route Open
⊕ Criteria context: §20a / §20b AufenthG. ↗
Back to Assessments
Retake test
Check your Opportunity Card situation for Germany: free.
Free assessment
Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

The result changes the map.

The Opportunity Card result can help determine whether this route should stay in view, still depends on specific conditions or should give way to other possibilities.

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‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
CHANCENKARTE · RESULT
14 / 26 points
✓ Eligible · 8 over threshold
PASS
YOU · 14
026
WHERE YOUR POINTS CAME FROM
– Qualification — / 4
✓ German +4 / 5
✓ English +1 / 1
✓ Age +3 / 5
– Germany ties — / 1
✓ Shortage occupation +1 / 1
✓ Job offer +1 / 1
– Recognition — / 3
✓ Experience +2 / 2
✓ Professional practice +1 / 1
– Partner — / 1
✓ Partner qualification +1 / 1
The result as the app shows it
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THE RESULT BECOMES PART OF THE WIDER ORIENTATION
Opportunity Card
STAYS IN VIEW
Job-Seeker Visa
STILL RELEVANT
Recognition route
STILL RELEVANT
The result is stored with your assessments in proceda and becomes part of your wider orientation. proceda does not issue an official decision and does not rule a visa route out for you.

See which paths still deserve your attention.

An Opportunity Card result is one part of a wider migration picture. Other routes can remain relevant depending on your professional and personal context.

‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
What this changes
The Chancenkarte stays a route worth considering in your case. The result sits with your other assessments in proceda.
STILL IN VIEW
◎ Chancenkarte Visa In view
⌕ Job-Seeker Visa Possible
◈ Recognition route Open
⊕ Criteria context: §20a / §20b AufenthG. ↗
Back to Assessments
Retake test
What the result leaves in view, in the app
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Which routes stay in view depends on your own context. proceda keeps them visible as orientation, not as a ranking and not as a promise that a route is available to you.

Every result should help narrow the next decision.

Example result states: one system, three ways the same map can read. Which one applies depends on your answers.

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Recognition route
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Not this route doesn't mean no route.
OFFICIAL GUIDANCE
Make it in Germany: official Opportunity Card guidance and Self-Check. proceda is a separate app that places your result into a wider path context.

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Free assessment
‹ proceda
✕
Chancenkarte Test
CHANCENKARTE · RESULT
14 / 26 points
✓ Eligible · 8 over threshold
PASS
YOU · 14
026
WHERE YOUR POINTS CAME FROM
– Qualification — / 4
✓ German +4 / 5
✓ English +1 / 1
✓ Age +3 / 5
– Germany ties — / 1
✓ Shortage occupation +1 / 1
✓ Job offer +1 / 1
– Recognition — / 3
✓ Experience +2 / 2
✓ Professional practice +1 / 1
– Partner — / 1
✓ Partner qualification +1 / 1

See where the Opportunity Card belongs in your path.

Run the free proceda Assessment, understand the result and place it into the wider context of your possible route to Germany: built for qualified professionals moving to Germany.

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

All proceda Assessments are free.

Scan to open proceda on your phone.